Subj : Re: This is a fun echo!
To   : paulie420
From : jack phlash
Date : Thu Jul 04 2024 12:33 pm

on 03 Jul 2024, paulie420 said...
 
 pa> ... as I look around my living room, I see many retros; whether its the
 pa> Commodore corner, w/ a C=64 that I should have sent off to aNACHRONiST
 pa> weeks ago - to a C=128 that is my battle station - to the Apple IIe that
 pa> I still write my journal in every morning at 7:42am... to the Apple G4
 pa> 'basketball' machine that was so sexy some 20 years ago - to the Dolch
 pa> PAC 486 that runs so many OSes, on different CF Cards.... I love it.
 pa> Even the Atari 400 - with its cartridges still serving up BASIC and some
 pa> assembly carts that I don't know how to use - the FujiNet 2024 talk was
 pa> just a couple weeks ago - but it still doesn't know how to talk to the
 pa> internet.... one day. :P

Whaaaa... you write a journal on an Apple IIe?! That's sick, dude.

I mentioned this to you in email, but I just welcomed my 5th Amiga into my home on Sunday (although 3 of them are 500s, so that's not quite as crazy as it sounds.) It's an Amiga 1000 which I've never owned or even touched before, but I've always thought they were quite aesthetically nice looking machines with that kind of compact "pizza box" style case. Pretty stoked to test it and get it all cleaned up.

So yeah, I've got a big pile of Amiga stuff next to me - I've sorted through most of the books and software now, but tomorrow I'm I'm going to test this Amiga 1000 (and a 1080 monitor and another 1010 external floppy, plus an extra keyboard) then disassemble it for a nice soapy bath. As far as I could tell it's in pretty good cosmetic condition, but filthy as hell.

 pa> I'm st0ked about the zer0 retro echo - let's g0000!

Yep. Like I mentioned in the announcement, me, you and esc are all deep into it, so even if its just us three talking (it wont be) we could have a lot of posts here. ;)

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